From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.de>
Cc: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
Colm MacCarthaigh <colmmacc@amazon.com>,
Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>,
Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>, Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>,
Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Stewart Smith <trawets@amazon.com>,
Uwe Dannowski <uwed@amazon.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, ne-devel-upstream@amazon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/18] nitro_enclaves: Init misc device providing the ioctl interface
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:04:19 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a37b0156c076d3875f906e970071cb230e526df1.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528131259.GA3345766@kroah.com>
On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 15:12 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> So at runtime, after all is booted and up and going, you just ripped
> cores out from under someone's feet? :)
>
> And the code really handles writing to that value while the module is
> already loaded and up and running? At a quick glance, it didn't seem
> like it would handle that very well as it only is checked at ne_init()
> time.
>
> Or am I missing something?
>
> Anyway, yes, if you can dynamically do this at runtime, that's great,
> but it feels ackward to me to rely on one configuration thing as a
> module parameter, and everything else through the ioctl interface.
> Unification would seem to be a good thing, right?
I personally still prefer a sysfs file :) I really don't like module
parameters as a way to do such things.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-01 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 22:13 [PATCH v3 00/18] Add support for Nitro Enclaves Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 01/18] nitro_enclaves: Add ioctl interface definition Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-27 8:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-05-28 18:05 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 3:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-06-01 7:20 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-05 8:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-05 15:39 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 02/18] nitro_enclaves: Define the PCI device interface Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-26 6:44 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 17:01 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-05-26 22:21 ` Greg KH
2020-05-28 16:37 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 2:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-06-01 7:07 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 2:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 03/18] nitro_enclaves: Define enclave info for internal bookkeeping Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-26 6:46 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 17:20 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 04/18] nitro_enclaves: Init PCI device driver Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-26 6:48 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 18:35 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-05-26 22:19 ` Greg KH
2020-05-28 16:26 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 2:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-06-01 6:42 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 05/18] nitro_enclaves: Handle PCI device command requests Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 06/18] nitro_enclaves: Handle out-of-band PCI device events Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 07/18] nitro_enclaves: Init misc device providing the ioctl interface Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-26 6:51 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 11:42 ` Alexander Graf
2020-05-26 12:33 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 12:44 ` Alexander Graf
2020-05-26 13:17 ` Greg KH
2020-05-26 13:44 ` Alexander Graf
2020-05-26 22:24 ` Greg KH
2020-05-28 13:01 ` Alexander Graf
2020-05-28 13:12 ` Greg KH
2020-05-28 17:06 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 3:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2020-06-09 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2020-06-01 3:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-06-01 2:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-05-26 13:40 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-06-01 2:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2020-06-01 5:48 ` Greg KH
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 08/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave vm creation Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 09/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave vcpu creation Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave image load metadata Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 11/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave memory region set Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave start Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] nitro_enclaves: Add logic for enclave termination Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 14/18] nitro_enclaves: Add Kconfig for the Nitro Enclaves driver Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 15/18] nitro_enclaves: Add Makefile " Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 16/18] nitro_enclaves: Add sample for ioctl interface usage Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-26 6:52 ` Greg KH
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 17/18] nitro_enclaves: Add overview documentation Andra Paraschiv
2020-05-25 22:13 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the Nitro Enclaves driver Andra Paraschiv
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